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IMCA safety flashes disseminate important information on incidents and potential hazards and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent incidents occurring elsewhere in the industry.

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Use of rags: Potential puncture wound

We have received the following report of a near-miss on board a rig, which provides a reminder of the need for constant safety awareness offshore. A coil tubing supervisor was […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 09/03

Care using hand tools

A recent incident has been reported to IMCA. Whilst we do not have details of injuries or damage, it involved a fairly standard operation in the engine room. An engineer […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 09/03

Electrical safety

It has been reported to IMCA that there have been several incidents lately relating to electrical safety. Essentially: Working on electrical equipment can be a highly hazardous job The identification […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 09/03

Dangers when mooring and unmooring

A recent near-miss was reported on a member’s vessel, whereby a rigger was nearly hit by a mooring line during a mooring operation. The rigger was operating the capstan when […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 09/03

Respiratory equipment

A member has recently issued advice to its employees concerning respiratory equipment as follows. On board there are several kinds of equipment for protection from possible polluted air. To be […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 09/03

Lifeboat davit sheave incident

A member has reported an incident involving a lifeboat davit sheave that occurred during ‘routine’ planned maintenance. On completion of tests, run according to the company’s standard procedures, personnel had […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 08/03

Exposure to CO₂ release from dry ice storage

IMCA has learned of the following incident whereby an unexpected hazard arose when stowing refrigerated stores. A vessel was in the process of mobilising for a prolonged spell offshore and […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 08/03

Cracked fuel line results in an engine fire

We have received a report of the following incident, whereby a vessel’s fire detection system indicated fire in the engine room. Engine emergency shut down was initiated and all personnel […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 08/03



Container door hinges failure: Container door fell on deck

IMCA has received details of an incident highlighting dangers from the lack of maintenance to container doors. A container was being opened as illustrated in the two photographs below. As […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 08/03

Fire incidents

Fire is one of the greatest risks to vessels and everybody needs to be on constant guard to prevent fires. We have recently received the following reports of incidents involving […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 07/03

Fatality: Fall from suspended work platform

A man was working on the lower level of a suspended modular scaffold. He fell from the scaffold through a gap between two modular platform sections. The plywood used to […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 07/03

Defective hammer shaft

To support a new client policy, a company was changing over to the use of fibreglass shafts for all hammers over 2lbs. One of the first to be sent offshore […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 07/03

Webbing strop failure during transponder recovery

A DSV was conducting diving operations recovering a previously installed transponder array. During the transponder recovery the diver connected the transponder beacon’s webbing strop (supplied with the transponder) and a […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 07/03

Fatality: Injury from an air hose

A member has reported that it is aware of the following incident, whereby a worker was struck on the head by a compressed air hose which had blown off of […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 06/03

Mugging and robbery

Further to a Safety Flash 05/03 (Robbery at gunpoint) a further robbery report has been received from a member. While getting a ride back to the vessel from Trinidad, Port […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 06/03

Positioning of emergency positioning indicating radio beacon

IMCA recently received details of an incident involving a dropped object. A vessel was undergoing a port state inspection in conjunction with a radio surveyor. During the inspection of the […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 06/03

SARS

In respect of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) members are able to obtain advice from several international/governmental agencies around the world. For example: World Health Organisation: who.int/csr/sars/en/ US Centers for […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 06/03

Inflatable lifejackets fail to inflate

This safety alert was received from the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) “Recently a fisherman and a workboat crewman died when the inflatable lifejackets they were wearing failed to […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 06/03

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